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bring home

Idioms  

  1. Get to the heart of a matter, make perfectly clear. For example, The crash brought home the danger of drinking and driving. This term uses home in the figurative sense of “touching someone or something closely.” [Second half of 1800s]

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Around the Games, there were plenty of other performances that may not have brought home a medal, but were record-breaking in their own right.

From BBC

A domestic in stringently segregated Greenville, Tibby brought home books and magazines, such as National Geographic, that her white employers’ children had discarded.

From Los Angeles Times

Post-COVID-19, however, the urgent need for space, privacy, and home offices has faded, bringing home sales activity back down from an unusually frothy peak.

From MarketWatch

Rising interest rates in Japan could encourage investors to start bringing home some of the trillions of dollars they have invested overseas.

From The Wall Street Journal

I don’t actually eat the pineapple I bring home.

From Literature

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